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5 Easy Hacks to Boost Email Open Rates

10/25/17

emily

From “You’ve Got Mail” to Nigerian prince schemes, email has been a vital part of online marketing from the start of the internet and it still is. About 2.5 billion people use email worldwide and that number is not decreasing any time soon.

Email marketing is a personal and effective way of reaching your target customers, sometimes even more effective than social media for customer acquisition.

Email marketing is crucial for your company’s success so here are 5 super simple hacks to get people to open your emails and get them talking about your business.

Scheduling: The easiest thing you can do to increase the open rate of your email newsletters is to schedule them at the right time.
For example, if you run a B2B company sending emails within business hours is going to work best. You may not want to send an email first thing Monday morning or Friday evening as we already pointed out, but sending an email around 11am on a Wednesday may be a better fit. However, if you are a B2C company, you might want to send out newsletters later in the day.

Be Creative with your Subject Lines: Subject lines are the first thing your audience will see and about 47% will open an email just due to the headline. So taking time to craft a clever and intriguing headline that will grab your audience attention immediately. The ideal headline should be 4-7 words. Be creative in how you get people to open your emails. Use song lyrics. Add some emojis. Be personal.

Send to non opens: An easy strategy to get more people to open your email newsletter is to send the same email again to all the people who didn’t open your first one! This is probably the simplest way to get more people to see your emails.

Here are some easy tips to keep in mind while designing your email to be mobile friendly:

Use a larger font (try 16 pixels).

Use a Sans Serif font (like Arial or Helvetica).

Write one or two sentence paragraphs (three at the most).

“If you’re running a real business, email is still the most effective way to universally reach people who have expressed interest in your product or site. For that, it really can’t be beat.” – Colin Nederkoorn (founder Customer.IO)

Email marketing is still very crucial to your business marketing strategy. You will be missing out on huge ROI and conversions if you do not take email newsletters seriously.

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